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CereSoft FormAgent is a
comprehensive and easy to use out-of-the box forms processing system that
includes the best data recognition technology in the world. CereSoft FormAgent
seamlessly and accurately recognizes data from handwritten and machine printed
forms as well as OMR, barcodes, logos, and form identities.
 Manager
This module, designed to be user-friendly, employs a visual schematic icon
diagram to smoothly navigate users and their documents through the system. The
complete Windows design includes job control and monitoring, work flow status
and statistics reporting all present on the screen. Real time warning of errors
and problems save much time and labor, and users can also view and access
document image files, templates, recognition results, and database tables
within work flow.
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 Design
For a form to be processed, a template must be created that tells the system
about the forms attributes, data location and data types. Design provides a
template wizard to guide users through the design of these templates. Design
also automatically performs form identification, form registration, auto
deskew, rotate, and inversion, so that correct and clean data images are
extracted for recognition. After the form template is finished, its
instructions are stored in an HTML text-file. This file can be accessed by
other components of the system. For example, FormAgent Verify reads it when in
the Page Mode editor.
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 FreeStyle™ Recognition Engine
FreeStyle employs CerebralNet, the most advanced recognition technology
available. This recognition engine is the result of years of research by
CereSoft engineers. It has peerless character recognition capabilities, the
most notable being the ability to read and recognize completely freestyle
handwriting. The document may contain individual letters and words, or even
sentences and paragraphs. CerebralNet technology integrates, in real time,
image, context, and linguistic validation rules to ensure the highest degree of
accuracy possible.
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The FreeStyle recognition engine is seamlessly comprehensive. It recognizes
both handwritten and machine-printed words simultaneously and automatically. It
also recognizes OMR, barcodes, logos, and form identities.
Besides the usual built-in validation rules such as lexical and geometrical
context to enhance accuracy, FormAgent uses a real-time higher-level context
known as data objects to assist the recognition process. For example, FormAgent
cross-checks the street, city, state, and zip code of an address from the
beginning of, rather than after the recognition process. In this way, the
system dramatically cuts down on mistakes. An otherwise unreadable address can
be correctly read in most cases. Other data objects include dates, phone
numbers, and e-mail addresses. FreeStyle also uses a large dictionary to limit
candidates to recognized words. The Trueword module is built into our
recognition engine from the start rather than as a post-processing tool, as
other vendors often do.
Recognition results are stored in an HTML text file. This file contains such
information as the multiple choices of each character and word, their
confidences, geometric locations, etc. This information can be easily accessed
by FormAgent's other components and modules. For example, Verify will use it to
improve the efficiency of the editing process.
 Verify
FormAgent will invoke a carefully designed editor to correct any remaining
recognition errors. The editor has two editing modes. In the Field Mode,
individual fields will be presented to users one at a time for manual
correction. But if field alone cannot resolve the ambiguity of a word, Page
Mode can be accessed by double-clicking the field image. In Page Mode, the
editing field and the original image in the page are highlighted together for
easy identification. Alternative choices for each character and field are
displayed at all times along with the field you are editing.
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Export
FormAgent has the ability to export the extracted data in either ASCII text
format or any ODBC compliant database format. The Export Manager allows you to
export data to multiple databases in multiple formats. It also allows you to
export data to spreadsheets, EDI (electronic data interchange) or web-form
format.
Other Features
FormAgent is completely scalable. It can distribute work to many PC stations
for scanning, recognition, verification and data export. It is also Internet
enabled, so that remote processing is possible over private or public
networks.
It also has an extremely flexible user interface that makes adding or modifying
existing jobs easy. It supports all major SCSI and ISIS and Twain compatible
scanners.
DLL, COM, DCOM and ActiveX based agents allow FormAgent to be easily integrated
so that it can be used not only as an out-of-the-box product but also as a data
entry component of a business information processing system.
System Requirements
IBM Compatible Pentium PC.
64 Mb of RAM and 200 MB of hard disk space.
MS Windows 95, 98, 2000, or NT operating system environment.
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